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...Silk Road Project’s second annual on-campus festival kicks off today, with a free concert and film screening that spotlight China’s influence on the arts. Eight years ago, cellist Yo-Yo Ma ’76 founded the project, which derives its name from the renowned trade route that traversed Asia. Its artistic and educational programs promote diversity and collaboration of cultural styles. The three-day festival this week, known as the “residency program” at Harvard, is part of the project’s five-year collaboration...
...Harvard Arts Medal, an annual honor awarded to alumni that have demonstrated artistic excellence and contributed to raising student interest in the arts, the Office for the Arts announced Wednesday. Durang will be the 12th to add his name to the list of notable alumni artists, including cellist Yo-Yo Ma ’76, director Peter Sellers ’80 and author John Updike ’54, who have earned the medal. In May, University President Lawrence H. Summers will present the award to Durang during the 14th annual Arts First celebration, a four...
...Orchestra, outfiddled a bevy of other musicians this past January to win the BachSoc’s annual two-day Concerto Competition. This Saturday’s concert will contribute to the already-rich history of the Bach Society Orchestra, an organization that has nurtured the likes of cellist Yo-Yo Ma ’76 and composer John Adams ’71. Despite Mozart’s not-so-recent death in 1791, the ever-lively BachSoc’s performance promises to revive his masterful music...
...their fields,” according to Ilchman.The program aims to “remind people that immigration makes a positive impact,” he said. “People will realize that you can have laws that keep immigrants out, but you will also keep the Yo-Yo Ma’s out.”A 2006 fellow, Vipin Narang, a Ph.D candidate in Government at Harvard, said that the program helps fellows “figure out how to contribute back to the US and also to their home countries, but mostly to America?...
World-famous cellist Yo-Yo Ma ’76 will soon reemerge onto the world stage in a new capacity—this time working with the United Nations (U.N.) to promote cultural understanding, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi A. Annan announced last Thursday...